Modeselektor & Apparat reunite for the sublime and succinctly titled 'II'. With peerless production sheen and the lushest intentions they bridge the gap between classy Teutonic trance, garage-grooved UK soul music and ambient indie-pop on eleven exquisite compositions. Sascha Ring aka Apparat's voice is a key factor, coming off like Thom Yorke's sweeter, blue-eyed soul brother for the most part, while the production is an insoluble combination of their tastes exhibited via the Monkeytown label, and that classic feel for pill-belly melody and intricate, involving arrangement equally adept at enhancing your headphone commute as it is to soundtracking stadiums and heaving clubs. The ghost of Burial looms large throughout, haunting its clipped 2-step rhythms and forlorn melodic figures from the lonely interlude to the depressed voices and snappy punctuation of 'Ilona', keeping each song teetering on the balance of soul wallow and euphoric salvation. The previous single 'Bad Kingdom' is the most obvious highlight, but our favourites moments lie in the brooding ten minute drone techno ascendance of 'Milk', and the wet-eyed trance tingle and woodblock grooves of 'Therapy'. We're sure you'll have your own percy, though, it's just one of those that albums that you can't deny on many levels.

Blanck Mass is the solo project of Benjamin John Power. The Fuck Buttons musician has been making music under the moniker since 2010. His self-titled debut was released on Mogwai’s Rock Action in 2011. Described by Fact Magazine as “simultaneously soothing and sweepingly grandiose, esoteric and surprisingly accessible”, the album was an elegant, introspective departure from the stadium electronica he had become known for. In 2012, ‘Sundowner’ – the second track from the album – soundtracked the London Olympics Opening Ceremony. The song was chosen by Underworld’s Rick Smith and performed by London’s Symphony Orchestra to 900 million people worldwide.

It's been six years since the Leeds duo, real names Gavin Miller and Thomas Ragsdale, put out Arrivals, their debut full-length as worriedaboutsatan. Shortly after its release the project was put on hiatus, only to be resurrected in March 2014 in the form of single I'm Not / The Next Round. The pair immediately started work on the new LP, which takes its cues from techno, krautrock, drone and '70s prog rock. Even Temper will be released on digital, CD and vinyl formats via Miller's This Is It Forever label.

Chris Clark, aka Clark, has announced a new EP called Flame Rave, the followup to last year's eponymous release, Clark. The new LP is due out March 26 via Warp.

The album cover, by Designers Republic has been announced along with the track times - Which doesn't match up with the previous unidentified leak.
The album will be out on September 23th via Warp and a press release, including a lengthy (and odd) biography has been shared. Below is a quote:
"Only few and far between during the new millennium, a full-length, 20001's Druikqs, James - has marked the beginning of an arc, and the final new material in 20005. A lot of the music in any way is often a lack of communication and leadership to be fallacious rumors of new material for his fannies and his enthusiasm has not diminished hope. However ambitious this year, 9014, they uncovered new mats in almost a decade distribution crowdfund rallied together his army of fans: A precious gift that can not be the same as the new
Phex Twinnipicks material is still unquenched thirst.
Syria, September 23, 2014, along with records of Aphex Twin's new album to be released. For the owner of Triple vinyl, CD and digital formats will be available. Bleep a very limited vinyl version you can register your interest in buying."

Scottish producer Loops Haunt is set to release new EP 'Zenith' through Black Acre on December 3rd.
Fusing IDM with a warped, hip hop driven sensibility Loops Haunt has been on our radar for some time now. Releases are sporadic, but when they do arrive the producer tends to rupture our ear drums with ferocious musical progression.
Now the producer has confirmed plans for his next step. New EP 'Zenith' drops on December 3rd, and contains seven tracks which build on Loops Haunt's reputation.
The announcement from Black Acre is typically enthusiastic and well worth repeating in full: "So were heading toward the end of the year. It's been stoopid fresh for us here in the Black Acre hipster reserve and thusly we bid farewell to 2012 with the singularity inducing Loops Haunt. This result of the bio-engineering of IDM and rap-ass beats is just one of SEVEN musical confections featured on the new new ZENITH EP! Good bye cruel world see you on the other side."

The first full-length from Valentin Stip, Sigh, will see release on Other People next month.
A friend and musical associate of DARKSIDE member and Other People chief Nicolas Jaar, Stip is in many ways an artist in the same mold. At 21, he's already toured with Jaar (who's not much older) and released a few EPs on Jaar's old label Clown & Sunset while in college. A pianist by trade, Stip makes frequent and impressionistic use of the instrument on Sigh, combining it with electronic textures and subtle beats. The album will be one of two full-lengths on Other People in the first part of this year—the Russian producer Vtgnike will release an album called Dubna through the imprint around the same time.

Jaga Jazzist (also known as Jaga) is a Norwegian experimental jazz band, that rose to prominence when the BBC named their second album, A Livingroom Hush (Smalltown Supersound/Ninja Tune), the best jazz album of 2002.

Moderat is an electronic music project that originated in Berlin, Germany. It started as a collaboration between Sascha Ring, also known as Apparat, and Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary, also known as Modeselektor. Their first full length album was released seven years after their first EP, due to some creative disagreements and different opinions on how they should work.
The album Moderat has received mostly favorable reviews.
In March 2012, Modeselektor announced on their Facebook fanpage that they would start work on a second album later that year.
In February 2013 band announced their second album titled II. It is set to release through Modeselektor’s Monkeytown Records on August 2.
As the band says:
“We have known each other for 12 years now, and during that time we haven’t really changed that much: We are still three guys mostly talking about hihats and tape machines while hanging out in the studio… [II] is, again and again, an experiment of exploring our similarities and differences and to interlace them to something new and exciting.”